Saturday, July 7, 2012

New house, MN, Fire and Fireworks!

It has been a while since I have updated our blog. Wow, have we been busy! So we are officially in the new house and are loving it. It has been a whirlwind last month, the weekend prior to moving we went home for my Grandma B's 100th Birthday. How cool to go to a great party and see family and celebrate? When my grandma turned 90 I promised her that when she turned 100 my cousin Dawne, myself and Grandma would were sparkly red dresses. Well the closer to 100 she got I panicked and instead knit all three of us red sparkly flapper hats. They turned out fantastic and the trip home to MN was great. I also got to meet my best friend Al's little boy Chase. Enjoy the pictures below!

With the help of friends and family we got everything moved and unpacked. The video tour will hopefully be next blog post, just have a few more finishing touches. The day before the 4th of July we had a fire scare in our neighborhood. It has been really dry in the West this year and suddenly Tuesday afternoon it looked like a bomb went off behind our house. There was a fire 7 miles from us and we were told to get our to go bag ready. It was pretty scary and I hope the closest we ever get to experiencing that. All is safe and good now but a lesson in how you really decide what would you bring if you had to evacuate. On top of everything else we also thought my good old 197,000 mile dodge stratus kicked the bucket on us so we were down to one car. Lucky for me my awesome husband was able to troubleshoot the problem and get the car going again. Won't be long before I need a new car though.

We had a great fourth and had some friends over for pool time, crab legs, drinks and hot dogs. It was so nice to just sit back and enjoy our house and good company. My Mom and Dad come to town next weekend and we are looking forward to showing them the house and just spending time together.

Love,
Alyssa and Brendan


Video from Camping Summer 2012